Celebrity Biographies
Cécile de France
She is beautiful and an aura of extreme elegance surrounds her. Her smile disarms anyone. Cécile de France has a solid career built in France, although she has also made inroads in her own country of Belgium and in the Hollywood scene.
Cécile de France was born… in Belgium, specifically in the city of Namur, on July 17, 1935. But determined to see her dream of being an actress come true, she left for France at the age of 17, and studied drama in Paris, in the company of the prestigious Jean-Paul Denizon, and at the National Superior School of Dramatic and Theater Techniques (ENSATT), both at its Parisian and Lyon headquarters.
His acting career began on stage, but while he was doing theater he sought to get into cinema by lending himself to work in short films, such as Tous nos voeux de bonheur (1997), by Jean-Pierre Améris .
Cécile’s first major feature was The (Delicate) Art of Seduction (2001), a romantic comedy by Richard Berry . It wasn’t much, but she opened the door for a title with a much greater impact,A crazy house (2002), which even had a sequel in 2005,The Russian dolls . Both titles by the popular Cédric Klapisch played with the idea of the sentimental drift of several young people from different European nations, whom he had to live with. They were films that made known, in addition to Cécile, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou . For our actress they meant two Caesars, the first as a revelation actress, the other as best secondary.
In any case, in between these titles, Cécile had time to attract attention with a thriller with a very appropriate title,High Voltage (2003), directed by someone destined to excel in this genre and in terror, Alexandre Aja . But he returned to comedy with a specialist behind him, Étienne Chatiliez , inBlind Trust (2004); Also that year she tried her luck for the first time in a Hollywood production, with the funny Jackie Chan ,Around the World in 80 Days (2004) .
De France manages to give his characters a sophisticated touch, which came to the hair of Gérard Depardieu , his co-star in Chanson d’amour ( Xavier Giannoli , 2006). And since he doesn’t exaggerately overlap in casts, he’s an idea in choral films, so he was that one again in one of them,Seating area , under the orders of a woman, Danièle Thompson . Clint Eastwood himself knew how to seeit, when he trusted her to give life to a woman who has experienced almost death inBeyond life (2010). She also composed well her supporting role in the first part of a gangster diptych, the amazingMesrine Part 1: Death Instinct (2008). And she shone as the protagonist in Un secret (2007), directed and accompanied by Claude Miller .
With her boyfriend Guillaume Malandrin, Cécile has had a son since 2007. It must have helped her to play a woman with maternal instincts inThe Boy with the Bicycle (2011), a Belgian film by the actress, directed by the most famous filmmakers in that country, the brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne . Although before, for a change, she played a singing nun with a tragic career in her country, Sister Jeannie Deckers, in the biopic Soeur Sourire (2009).